sciatrix

...so here's a little snippet of something I was working on about six months ago, which I think I might like to revisit.

See, you have two characters here with these wildly different approaches to touch: Mantis, who is a touch empath and also a lot more fragile than Nebula, is someone I rather think has been raised to be rather careful and delicate about who she touches and when (and this will be especially true, given that she lives with Gamora who is quietly horrified by the concept of someone knowing your feelings by touching you). By contrast, you have Nebula, who was raised to be a weapon, doesn't seem to have much interaction with touching outside of combat, and has a very, very high pain tolerance coupled to a very intense desire for emotional intimacy and basically no idea how to go about getting it.

( It struck me that this might spark a bit of a conflict. )